Existence Quotes

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
Baltasar Gracian

Friends, Second, Tis

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
Adrienne Rich

Life, Women, Rejection

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
David Hilbert

Men, Stupid, Together

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
James Joyce

God, Artist, Within

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
Gertrude Stein

Women, Children, Vote

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
R. D. Laing

Rules, Rule, Exist

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.
Marco Rubio

Business, Trying, Start

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
Meryl Streep

Home, Care, Fashion

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith

Life, Love, Happiness

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
Herman Hesse

Happiness, Feeling, Nothing

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
Stanislav Grof

Time, Hope, Humanity

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
Emily Bronte

Cannot, Everybody, Beyond

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.
Anthony Hopkins

Religion, Nature, God

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Henry Adams

Power, Science, Human

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Hannah Arendt

Politics, History, Freedom

Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?
Martin Scorsese

Important, Why, Vision

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.
Margaret Cho

Almost, Feminist, Denying

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
Peter Ustinov

Men, Night, After

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp

Opinion, Purpose, Ourselves

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Character, Depression, Give

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Men, Few, Possible

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
Henri Bergson

Reason, Creature, Endowed

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
Bell Hooks

Women, Men, Focus

The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal.
Robert Lanza

Life, Human, Reality

As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.
David Attenborough

Far, Natural, Seem

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
Ang Lee

Men, Woman, Meaning

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
Bodhidharma

Suffering, Another, Reaching

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Cyril Connolly

Life, Success, Calm

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
George Canning

Old, Balance, Redress

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.
David Duchovny

Life, Hide, Conspiracy

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